landscape - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

questions come up and new questions about the evolving landscape come up,” he says, “we’re hoping to keep asking in rapid fire questions to small business owners to help guide the policy and managerial discussions.” About the Author... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how should smart businesses proceed, given the rapidly expanding... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

like Grubhub. For more, see It’s Called Price Coherence, and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers.) THE TEMPTATION TO CUT CORNERS COMPETITIVELY Edelman contends that the current competitive landscape encourages all TNCs to cut corners, or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

New Model for High Performance But lately the challenges for professional service firms (PSFs) have been growing in size and complexity, and the excitement is more the type you need a stomach antacid to control. The dilemma, says HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong, is that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as possible to the new competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

has dramatically reshaped the competitive landscape and the founders must decide between pursuing their high-growth strategy versus retrenching—including cutting costs and pulling out of their first international expansion that they had... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

the educational aspects of computing. OLPC has made a difference already because it changed the landscape in terms of dreams and expectations. Observers can see what makes the goal of one laptop per child difficult to achieve. Says... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic is the decision-making around office space? Maria Roche: I think there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

outside innovators? A: The first main advantage is the presence of multiple parallel paths to solve an innovation problem. In both markets and communities, external innovators will explore innovation landscapes that are often unknown and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site's several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future—and on a dramatically new, emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

formulating negotiation strategy, strive to view the landscape as other parties see it. Returning to our hockey example, the NHL general managers had to work on at least three different levels as they raced to sign players. They had to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

ubiquitous by the 2010s; (3) asset lockups, which disappeared from the landscape for thirty years, have reemerged, though in a "new economy" variation; and (4) practitioners have begun implementing side agreements to the deal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

health care landscape through a lens of disruptive innovation. How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity Instead of making health care delivery more efficient, electronic health records may be doing just the opposite.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

that something was happening." To evaluate the effects of planning regulation on independent retailers, Sadun studied the retail landscape in the United Kingdom between 1998 and 2003. Not surprisingly, she discovered that the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at HBS. Gupta, whose current academic interests lie in mobile advertising, mobile payments, and mobile commerce, described the difficult landscape confronting marketers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

landscape presents a world of possibility. "We're seeing a world that will open up opportunities in ways unimagined," Stevenson told alumni at the HBS 2001 Global Alumni Conference. In a lively discussion entitled, "What An... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52472 Harvard Business School Case 717-474 Walmart: Navigating a Changing Retail Landscape As the largest company, by revenue, in the world, Walmart has been a lightning rod for criticism.... View Details

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

between an overcrowded competitive landscape in Dubai and challenging conditions abroad, Alabbar wondered how he could maintain his company's growth while staying prepared for any upcoming financial downturn. Purchase this case:... View Details